"A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight."
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"We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend."
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"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules."
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"Books are the best type of the influence of the past."
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"The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing."
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"Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
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"Earth helped him with the cry of blood."
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"She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love."
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"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."
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"The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives."
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"Of friends, however humble, scorn not one."
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"Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm."
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"She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years."
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"True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart."
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"I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind."
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"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
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"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent."
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"What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
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"Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man."
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"Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!"
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